“Outliers always have help along the way.” 

Malcolm Gladwell perfectly portrays why successful people are successful and, spoiler alert, it’s not just intelligence and hard-work. Success has a complex foundation of hidden advantages: when and where someone is born and grows up, their culture, their privilege, the legacies passed down to them, and the extraordinary opportunities made available to them. Each of these aspects hold a stake in how successful someone may become by providing a prosperous environment for learning and hard work.

There’s no sugar coating this one. The statistical data, research, and findings along the way are made so tangible and easy to understand. This book won’t teach you how to be successful. It won’t clue you in to how to hack in the system. And it certainly won’t tell you how to <inset measure of success here>. It will, however, open your eyes to the incredible circumstances surrounding success.